bill
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- See also Bill
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[change]Noun
[change]- (countable) A bill is a piece of paper money; a banknote.
- Synonym: banknote
- I paid for my sandwich using a twenty-dollar bill.
- (countable) A bill is a piece of paper telling you what other people have done for you and how much you owe them.
- Synonym: check
- "Ask the waitress if we can have the bill now."
- (countable) A bird's bill is its beak (the hard mouth part).
- Synonym: beak
- (countable) (law) A bill is a proposed law.
- The bill passed the Senate.
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This duck has an orange bill
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A dollar bill
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- (transitive) If you bill someone, you give or send them a bill.
- Synonym: charge
- The shop billed me $100 for tickets.
- (transitive) If you bill a person or an event, you announce them.
- He was billed as "The Great Houdini".